Part 1
By Collectivist Action
https://youtu.be/ABvhXl0U0Bk?
Imho, We presently face a world crisis rooted in a contradiction in which the insatiable quest to maximize corporate profits, and the political power that comes with that, are slowly, and not-so-slowly, making Planet Earth INHOSPITABLE to life as-we-know-it.
Clearly our entire relationship to the natural world has been distorted and/or breached.
For conscious and conscientious people this crisis undergirds most of the critical, seemingly intractable social and natural dilemmas we face as a species and should not be taken lightly. If survival and prosperity, in the short or long term, are important to us, along with maintaining a sustainable environment for future generations, we must harness all of our collective energies to mitigate, if not eliminate, this existential crisis.
Of course, it may be too late.
However, to refuse to try to resolve this principal planetary contradiction, will certainly doom us to a 6th planetary EXTINCTION,
Actually, it has already begun for some species.
Although we are quintessential beings-of-nature, i.e. an inextricable part of its long evolution, Mother Nature did not cause this crisis. Rather the dominant economic/political/social organizations of our societies are the primary source of the problem. She never promised us paradise. If, or when, humans become extinct, the Earth and other life forms are likely to continue to exist. We need the Earth more than the Earth needs us.
By focusing our attention on the primary source of the problem, many of have come to the inescapable conclusion that the constant accumulation of capital (which we see even in countries which are purportedly non or anticapitalist)) must be ended ASAP. Sooner, rather than later, a massive, collective effort must be made, everywhere humans exist, to establish societies based on satisfying HUMAN NEEDS, e.g., food, shelter, healthcare, communication, transport and public safety systems, while dismantling those social systems motivated primarily by HUMAN GREED.
As difficult as those tasks are, students of human history recognize that the rule of capital only emerged within the last few hundred years, out of a million years of human existence. Before and during the rise of capitalism, and before the advent of class-based societies, human societies arose and prospered that were based on sharing vital resources, goods, services and POWER. Civilizations rise and fall.
Nevertheless, no perfect society has ever existed, and probably never will.
Yet, we can do MUCH better.
We MUST.
Fortunately, all across the world, there are social forces which are actively trying to avert impending extinction by dismantling climate degrading and exploitative social systems. What we call them are not as important as what they actually become and the healthy relationships they generate.
As advocates, activists and organizers, unequivocally committed to this daunting mission, here, in the ‘cranium of the Bea$t’, our most urgent tasks are to:
Seek UNITY with as many people as possible, on the planet who express a genuine interest in creating, and recreating societies based on satisfying HUMAN NEEDS
Recognize the levels of interest and commitment to this mission, in terms of determining who is willing, and able, to do WHAT & WHERE & HOW & WHY
Love.Ain’t.ALL.we.need!
KNOW THY ENEMIES
Critically accumulate knowledge and carefully examine ideas, strategies and tactics
Wisely SHARE our limited resources and power
While recognizing the importance of utilizing VARIOUS rational and creative theories and practices, REJECT dogmatism, doctrinairism and sectarianism; acknowledging that no book or person or group has all the answers
UNITY WITHOUT UNIFORMITY
DARE TO STRUGGLE, DARE TO WIN
https://youtu.be/ifKrjldapaY?
(To be continued)
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